C Program to Find Highest Frequency Character in a String

This C Program finds highest frequency character in a string. Here this program checks which character has occured more number of times and checks how many times these character has occured.

Here is source code of the C Program to find the highest frequency character in a string. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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 * C Program To Find the Highest Frequency Character in a String

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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <string.h>
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char string1[100], visited[100];
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int count[100] = {0}, flag = 0;
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void main()
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    int i, j = 0, k = 0, l, max, index;
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    printf("Enter a string : ");
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    scanf("%[^\n]s", string1);
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    l = strlen(string1);
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    for (i = 0; i < l; i++)
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    {
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        if (i == 0)
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        {
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            visited[j++] = string1[i];
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            count[j - 1]++;
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        }
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        else
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        {
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            for (k = 0; k  < j; k++)
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            {
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                if (string1[i] == visited[k])

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                {
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                    count[k]++;
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                    flag = 1;
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                }
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            }
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            if (flag == 0)
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            {
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                visited[j++] = string1[i];

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                count[j - 1]++;
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            }
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            flag = 0;
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        }
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    }    
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    for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
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    {
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        if ((i == 0) && (visited[i] != ' '))

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        {
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            max = count[i];
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            continue;
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        }
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        if ((max < count[i]) && (visited[i] != ' '))

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        {
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            max = count[i];
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            index = i;
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        }
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    }
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    printf("\nMax repeated character in the string = %c ", visited[index]);

    printf("\nIt occurs %d times", count[index]);

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}
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$ cc string23.c
$ a.out
Enter a string : Welcome to Sanfoundry's C Programming Class !
 
Max repeated character in the string = o 
It occurs 4 times

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